Sean Chandler
C8 Senior Partner
High-Tech, Wireless, HLS, E-Commerce, Digital Marketing
Expertise:
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Strategic Partnerships & Channel Development
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Strategy Consulting
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Business Management & Consulting
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Program Development & Leadership
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Leadership Development & Training
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Large-scale/Enterprise Initiatives
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Global Market Development
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Client Services Management
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Client Services Program Development
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Digital Marketing
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Agile Marketing
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Agile & Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Availability:
FT, PT & Fractional availability starting in Oct.
A Bit About Sean
Personally, Sean love's to travel with his family experiencing cultures, communities and the diverse beauty of our world. He enjoys the outdoors, skiing, boating, cycling, and hiking. With the Pacific Northwest as his home, he treasures exploring and experiencing all that the beautiful PNW has to offer. He and his wife have been blessed to be able to have visited many countries around the world with London and NYC as some of their favorite cities. However, Sean has also visited many wonderful and remote locations including a few exciting experiences in places like Kabul, Afghanistan; Central Saudi Arabia and Legos, Nigeria, to name a few.
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Professionally, Sean is a Passionate explorer of new and innovative approaches to help people connect, build rich experiences, remove barriers and expand businesses. In the early 2000's, Sean was developing global markets and focusing on innovative technology solutions for healthcare, education, high-tech and power & energy. After launching offices in Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, KSA Sean returned home to Seattle in 2010 to joining Strong-Bridge and Slalom Consulting. Since 2011, Sean has been fortunate enough to work and partner together with some amazing clients including: Amazon, Microsoft, HTC, T-Mobile, eBay, Cisco, Webex, Facebook/Meta, HP and Brooks Running as well as many wonderful Health, Life Science and Medical Devise companies like: United Healthcare Group, Optum, Takeda, J&J, Seagen (formerly Seattle Genetics), Cigna, Anthem, Humana & BD (Becton Dickinson). Many great relationships, lessons, challenges and successes have resulted from this rich and incredible journey.
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Sean is a lifelong learner driven to listen, empathize, connect and understand as we work together to face big challenges, solving big problems.
Highlighted Leadership & Consulting Experience
February 2023 - Present
March 2021 - February 2023
July 2019 - March 2021
April 2013 - July 2019
August 2011 - April 2013
September 2004 - July 2011
C8
C8 Group Founder and Senior Partner
Nxtting founder and managing partner developing a $16M global pipeline and $250K in signed contracts in 4 months. Spun off and sold Nxtting within first 8 months.
Designit Global Group Director & Executive Client Partner
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Established & launched the Health & Life Science sector for Designit. Developed sector to 15+ Health, Life Science and Medical Device accounts internationally by 2022.
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Sold largest single contract in Rational/Designit history for $28 Million.
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Led and managed Cisco with leadership direction and oversight of Amazon, HP, T-Mobile and numerous other High-Tech and Wireless clients.
Wipro Digital and Rational Client Partner, Director of Client Services
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Recruited to develop and grow new business. Led the HLS (Health & Life Sciences) & CMD (Consumer & Medical Devices) for Strategic Design and Marketing Services. Grew sector from 0-$3M in 18 months.
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Authored, Developed and Led the Client Services Program responsible for Designit, Wipro and Rational collaborative alignment, training and business process optimization.
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Architected and drove Client Services transformation and provided strategic development leadership to the emerging Consulting practice.
Slalom Director & Client Partner for T-Mobile and Emerging Markets
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T-Mobile Account IT Client Partner leading all technology efforts for the #2 Slalom global account. Grew IT business 10x in 3 years (6%-64% share of the Slalom account business at T-Mobile).
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Grew YOY TMO account sales 4x and IT sales 10x from 2014-2016 resulting in the T-Mobile account taking the #1 Slalom Global account.
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Director and architect of the TDM COE for TMO EIT (Enterprise IT). An 85 person team responsible for driving all TMO Digital Transformation and Enterprise Infrastructure initiatives. 270+ enterprise projects, worth $980M+.
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Co-Authored, developed and taught the Slalom Large Cap Dev protocol across Slalom Seattle senior leadership. Program was subsequently deployed globally to all Slalom leadership and business development.
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Emerging Market Client Partner - Developed the Clients Services Pilot Program for Slalom's Emerging Market sector. Developed and led client accounts including: eBay, Facebook, Seagen (formerly Seattle Genetics) and Brooks Running.
Strong Bridge Sr. Management Consultant & Account Executive for HTC
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Led the response and mitigation team for the 2010 FTC Security Case against HTC Americas. Served as the HTC Global Executive Legal & Compliance Manager working across HTC US and HTC HQ in Taipei to research, mitigate and institute device security and compliance improvements company-wide.
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Established the HTC Americas EPMO serving the executive leadership. Personally managed all operations, security & safety initiatives for the office of the COO.
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Led the HTC Device Quality Tiger Team responsible for improving device quality significantly and securing the AT&T Windows Phone partnership.
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Developed the first ever Carrier-OEM TCO/CLV model (Total Cost of Ownership and Customer Lifetime Value). Negotiated and established the HTC and T-Mobile TCO/CLV partnership resulting in accurate monthly total cost of ownership and customer lifetime value calculations across all TMO customers on HTC devices as well as valuable TCO and CLV reference data for all other device manufacturers on the TMO network.
DSG Global Managing Partner and Head of the Dubai, UAE office
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Head of Business Development & Market Expansion. Launched business in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Establish and ran offices in Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Developed a $32M pipeline and awarded the #1 MS Surface Partner for Saudi Arabia and #2 in UAE.
Prior to 2004
Various sales, account management, consulting and start-up engagements. Inquire for more details.
Global Highlights
Highlights of global business and market development engagements. Inquire for more details.
Oslo Webex projects
London various projects and partners
Tokyo e-commerce project
Taipei HTC project
Lagos market launch
Bangalor design & dev teams
Lebanese design & dev teams
Kabul Roshan telco project
Lahore projects and partners
Dubai market launch projects and partners
Riyadh market launch projects
Bahrain projects and partners
Colombia projects
NYC office
Dallas office
California office
Seattle HQ various projects
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Skillset, Experience & Capabilities
Strategy · Strategic Partnerships · Business Management & Leadership · Team Leadership & Training · Executive Consulting · Cross-team Collaboration · Stakeholder Management · Corporate and Program Communication · Agile Scrum Master · Agile Client Relationship Management · Certified SAFe Product Owner Product Manager (POPM) · Agile Marketing
PMO Leadership · Enterprise Program Development & Management
Education & Certifications
University of Washington
BA, Political Science & Law
Mortar Board Honors Graduate
Certified Scrum Master (POPM)
Scaled Agile - SAFe
Issued 2018
Agile Marketing Professional
Agile Marketing Alliance
